A day after Nyali Member of Parliament Mohammed Ali revealed plans to ditch the United Democratic Alliance(UDA) Party, the Mombasa County UDA Secretary General, Mutisya Wambua, has said that Ali's decamping will not have any effect on the party.
In a press briefing on Wednesday, April 16, in Mombasa, the SG claimed that the party will not stop the MP from leaving, however, it is still willing to support Ali if he decides to stay.
Mutisya, who described Ali as a 'political tourist', further stressed that the MP should refrain from 'disturbing' the UDA National Secretary General Hassan Omar if he decides to leave.
"This person is a political tourist, tomorrow you might hear him claiming that he will vie for a seat in Isolo, the next time you will hear him saying that he will vie in Nairobi, and then Mombasa," he said.
"We are willing to work together with him, but we are also inviting him to come and work with us, but if he is looking for another path, he should look for it silently and leave the UDA SG to do his job," he said.
The members further assured that Ali's exit will also not influence other members to leave the party."I just want to assure everybody that he will not leave with other people," one of the members said.
During an interview on Tuesday, April 15, the Nyali lawmaker claimed that the party's SG has an intention of denying him the UDA ticket in the upcoming 2027 general polls.
Ali, who was elected as an MP under the UDA ticket in 2022, affirmed that he is prepared to leave the party and join another party or vie for a seat in the elections as an independent candidate.
The MP said that he is ready to face any political headwind if he decides to leave.
“We have many options on the table. I came as a first-timer through independent; the second term, I came through UDA, and I am here telling him again that nothing is going to stop us from moving forward," he said.
"If you think that the party is your property, we will go through other means; there are other means, there are other parties, and there is an independent party. That is what I told the secretary general of the party,” he added.
Ali's announcement comes a week after the Farmers Party, through a statement released by former Party Leader Irungu Nyakera on Tuesday, April 8, revealed its intention to exit from the Kenya Kwanza coalition.
Nyakera claimed that the citing that the higher-ups in the coalition had contravened the coalition agreement and the Constitution.
"While the Farmers Party in good faith entered into a Coalition Agreement with like-minded parties under the Kenya Kwanza Coalition on 23rd March 2022, it is with deep regret that we note a consistent pattern of dishonesty, political infidelity, and outright disregard for both the Constitution of Kenya (2010) and the spirit of our Coalition Agreement by our major coalition partner,” he said.
